Orhan Coskun

ANKARA Turkey's defence minister said it was preparing for potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defence systems, even while he said there was some improvement in talks with the United States over buying F-35 fighter jets.

ANKARA Turkey will not evacuate its military observation post in northern Syria's Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in the region, after a suspected Syrian government attack this month, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said.

ANKARA, May 20 Turkey's BDDK banking watchdog on
Monday imposed a settlement delay for FX purchases by
individuals of more than $100,000, a move that could raise
concerns about capital control in the country as it looks
protect the value of its local currency.

ANKARA/ISTANBUL Turkey took more unorthodox steps on Friday to protect its beleaguered lira, including scrapping a recently-hatched plan to tap the central bank's legal reserves to boost its budget and urging banks to encourage clients to convert foreign holdings.

ANKARA Turkey has for now abandoned a currency-boosting plan to transfer some 40 billion lira (£5.1 billion) from the central bank's legal reserves to the Treasury, two sources close to the issue told Reuters on Friday.

ANKARA Ten days after it annulled Turkey's most dramatic election upset in years, the country's electoral authority faces a barrage of questions from opposition parties who say there was no legal basis to cancel the vote.

ANKARA Turkey's Treasury ministry is working on legislation to transfer the central bank's 40 billion lira ($6.6 billion) in legal reserves to the government's budget to shore it up, three economic officials told Reuters.

ANKARA Turkey's Treasury ministry is working on legislation to transfer the central bank's 40 billion lira ($6.6 billion) in legal reserves to the government's budget to shore it up, three economic officials told Reuters.

BEIRUT/ANKARA Syrian government forces and their Russian allies pounded the rebel-held northwest of Syria with air strikes on Saturday, sources in the area said, as artillery hit a Turkish military position there, underlining the risk of wider escalation.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products: